發信人: gsgsNOSPAMnews@hotmail.com (gs) 日期: Sat, 25 May 2002 07:59:35 +0100 標題: Re: Help Needed! 1st time visiting Beijing! 信群: alt.chinese.computing,soc.culture.china,alt.chinese.text,alt.chinese.text.big5 看板: 來源: :3578, public1-leed3-5-cust57.leed.broadband.ntl.com (80.0.5.57) 組織: "Gadfly" wrote in message news:64d469c4.0205242127.415dae0d@posting.google.com... > > Yes, as far as I'm aware all Visa, Cirrus, Mastercard cards charge a fee. > > That's normal. > > Gadfly was suggesting that you'd be charged an additional fee using a > > Chinese ATM. That is simply untrue. > > But it is true. I experienced it myself. Money is controlled by the > Chinese totalitarian state. > > If you belive this is not so..then just try to import or export large > amounts of Chinese money....you'll be arrested immediately if you are > caught. China is still a police state. There are no > freedoms...economic freedoms included. Why do you think this is? This is not simply the case in China. This happens in a lot of developing countries. By removing their currency you are devaluing it. > > And as far as foreign currency (Western money in particular)...the CCP > "sticks it" to us Western suckers who are foolish enough to bring our > money there. What they skim off of us is used to prop up their own > poor excuse for an economy. What are you talking about here? exchange rates? the fact that you have to pay for a visa? explain yourself. .